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Letters Patent No. 63,465, dated April 2, 1867.

CLAMP POR LENTE/BRING BILLIARD GURS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY'CONCERN:

Be it known that E. BRUNSWICK, of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Clamp for Leatliering the Billiard Cues; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, which represent the elevation of the clamp.

The nature ot' my invention consists in a coutrivance to facilitate the operation of putting leather on the points of the billiard cues.

To enable others skilled iu the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation. V

The plates A and B are attached to the shaft C; one of them, A, is stationary, while the other, B, may he shifted up and down on the shaft, and may be Ina-de stationary at any desirable height, according to the length of the cues to be leathered, by means of two pins, D D, entering the holes E E made in the shaft C. This upper plate B is provided also with a number of round perforations, into which enter the clamps F F, of a cylindrical form, whose top is formed in a knob, G, and whose bottom is formed in the shape of a cup, H, and around which, below the plate B, a spiral spring, K, is wound; the last arrangement permitting the cylinders to move upwards only under the pressure exercised from below.

The operation of leathering the cues consists in the following: -The plate B being set according to the length of the cues to he leathered, a ready-made piece of leather is then glued on the point of a billiard cue,g, and this is set under the clamp with its leathered point pressing against the cup H und its but end standing on the plate A. The spiral spring-K pressing on the cues leathered point, keeps the leather in its place until the glue is thoroughly dry and the one is leathered. The saine operation may be repeated with any number of cues in asimilar manner, all of them being conveniently le-athered in a short time by means of one or several stands of clamps.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The clamp to leather the billiard cues, constructed and operating substantially in the manner herein described and specified.

E. BRUNSWICK.

Witnesses:

J. B. TURCHIN, R. Domme. 

